Ex-prisoners. What's the most disturbing thing you've ever heard or witnessed from a fellow prisoner?

As the narrator, I feel inclined to warn people that there are some pretty extreme descriptions of violence in these posts.

I really mean it. I've done a few grim videos in the past, but there was at least one story here that I had to take a long walk after.

You've been warned. One of the women I was in

with was in for life. The reason that she was in was because someone had sold her fake smack,

so she had decided to murder this person. She goes to their house, cuts the gas line, and burns

the house down. Turns out she had the wrong house and killed an entire family in their sleep. She tried to

punk me out a few times, but I don't take people seriously if we can't communicate, like intelligent

human beings. She was obviously trying to avoid herself in all areas. It was really sad.

Had a pool table while locked up, nobody used the cues or balls to do stuff, because if you got

our pool table taken away, you'd better hope they took you away from us too. If fights drew blood,

everyone would come out of the woodwork with their little hand towels to clean up all the blood

before the COs would come out. I have a very funny image in my head of several thuggish dudes

cleaning up blood from a fight. Oh, you missed a spot,

Reggie. Sorry about that, Todd. I'll get right on that. Six months in Rikers Island, New York.

Watched a girl tried to drown herself in her cell toilet for two hours, just running her head

in, trying to stay under, while COs stood and laughed. When they left, she peed on the floor

to flood the cell to get their

attention again. Not a prisoner, but my professor works with prisoners. She told us she had this

client that had recently got out of jail, telling her that the most enjoyable thing in prison

was the group's therapy session. He said, I really love the group therapy because it gave me

ideas of other people's emotions

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